Cultural and heritage tours

The André Hambourg Museum of the Fransciscaines, dedicated to the "travelling painter", presents the collections passed on by his wife Nicole Hambourg to the City of Deauville. A painter of the navy, this prolific artist was a witness to the history of the 20th century. In this retrospective exhibition dedicated to him, we discover the life of this artist who ...

Discovering Les Franciscaines, its past and its collections, means discovering a part of the history of Deauville. A 150-year leap back in time plunges you into what was in turn an orphanage, a military hospital and a convent. Then explore Alain Moatti's architectural project to understand how an atypical cultural center works...

To understand everything about the "pop spirit", Annie Madet-Vache, director of Les Franciscaines Museum, offers a guided tour. Pop origin or pop heritage, chromatic detour, artistic comics and psychedelic series, all aspects of pop culture will be detailed. The pop culture being very vast, each work of the collection will be presented to the public...

Visitors are plunged into the world of dinosaurs, these large terrestrial reptiles whose fossils have been found in the rocks of Normandy. Learn to recognize them, discover their characteristics, their way of life, why they disappeared, do they have descendants ... so many questions that will be answered during this visit ...

The Paleospace presents a rich collection of fossils from the cliffs of the Vaches Noires located at the edge of the beach of Villers-sur-Mer. These fossils testify to a bygone era when huge marine reptiles hunted crocodiles and ammonites in a warm sea. With one of the mediators of the museum, the visitor discovers this Jurassic world...

From the rich hours of the Normandy coast casinos to James Bond, from Deauville to Las Vegas, from Aztec skin playing cards to online gambling, from modern day genre scenes to Ben's roulette wheels, via the Surrealists and Fluxus, the exhibition is a journey through one of man's wildest passions, gambling.

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Maître du noir et de la lumière, Pierre Soulages (1919-2022) a décliné
son travail grâce à différents médiums : l’huile sur toile pour les épaisseurs
de matière et les reliefs qu’elle permet, l’encre et le brou de noix sur papier,
et les différentes techniques d’estampe et de gravure.
Dès 1951, date de ses premières eaux-fortes, l’artiste aborde...

Une visite adaptée aux enfants pour découvrir l’exposition "Le Grand Bestiaire" au musée André Hambourg. Cornes et antennes, poils et plumes, carapaces d’ici et d’ailleurs : les enfants ne verront plus les animaux du même œil.